Make no mistake: the “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas, who is simultaneously the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), of Fatah, and of the Palestinian Authority, stands foursquare behind the actions in life of that mad-dog killer Yahya Sinwar, and mourns him in his death. Abbas is now in the 19th year of his four-year term as the president of the Palestinian Authority, that governing body based in the West Bank that the Biden administration would like to take over Gaza as part of that “two-state solution” that everyone in Washington keeps nattering on about. The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement. “Abbas mourns Sinwar’s death. What more do you need to know?,” Elder of Ziyon, October 20, 2024:
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization issued a statement which said, in part:
The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization mourns to the sons of our Palestinian people and all national action factions the martyrdom of the great national leader Yahya Sinwar, head of the political bureau of Hamas .
The Executive Committee extends its deepest condolences to the brothers in the Hamas leadership and cadres and to the family of the martyr Yahya Sinwar, calling for moving forward to strengthen our national unity within the framework of our sole legitimate representative, the Palestine Liberation Organization, so that we may be one front to thwart the Israeli plan aimed at displacing our people from their homeland, whether in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank…
The Executive Committee has 16 members. Its chairman is none other than Mahmoud Abbas.
The statement pretends that Sinwar, the architect of October 7 massacre, was merely the head of the “political bureau” of Hamas.
The official Palestinian Wafa news agency published this statement – but only in its Arabic site, not its English site.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa does not hide its views to its Arab audience, but withholds it from non-Arabs, lest they begin to realize just how “immoderate” the “moderate” Palestinians of the PLO and the Palestinian Authority really are.
The PLO website also published the statement of the minor Arab Liberation Front, which has not done anything of note for decades and does not even have a current webpage, to add to its mourning for Sinwar. The only possible reason to publish this statement from the ALF is if the PLO agrees with it.
With great sadness and pain, the Arab Liberation Front mourns the great national martyr Yahya Sinwar, head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, who ascended to glory as a martyr following an armed clash with the Zionist occupation soldiers in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the city of Rafah on the afternoon of Thursday, October 17, 2024. The Front, led by its Secretary-General Rakad Salem Abu Mahmoud, offered its condolences and sympathy to the brothers in the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, to the family of the martyr, and to all the sons of our steadfast people.
The Arab Liberation Front is a most inconsequential group, but the PLO quotes it because the ALF expresses the point of view of Sinwar — ascending “to glory as a martyr” — that the PLO agrees with and wishes to be expressed.
The Arab Liberation Front confirmed that the martyrdom of the leader Yahya Sinwar and before him the martyr leaders Yasser Arafat, Abu Ali Mustafa, Ahmed Yassin, Khalil Al-Wazir and other martyred leaders of the revolution will only increase the strength and steadfastness of our people in confronting this arrogant Zionist enemy….
Yasser Arafat was not a “martyr.” He died not in battle with the hated Israelis, but of natural causes. Abu Ali Mustafa of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was also not fighting when he died; he was seated at his desk when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired at him. Ahmed Yassin, one of the founders of Hamas, was being wheeled to his mosque when another helicopter gunship fired at him and his bodyguards. Khalil Al-Wazir was killed not in battle, but at his house in Tunis, as he was making preparations to go to the airport, by Israeli commandos.
When the PLO, and Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority all make the same remarks lamenting the death of the “martyr” Yahya Sinwar, and praising this mass murderer to the skies, they should be taken seriously. Their ultimate goal is the same as that of Hamas: the destruction of Israel, the expulsion or killing of its Jewish inhabitants, and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state. The only difference is in tactics and timing. The Palestinian Authority approves of the terrorism of others, but does not engage in terrorism itself. And the Palestinian Authority takes the long view, working to pressure Israel through political means to squeeze itself back within the 1949 armistice lines, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, after which the Arabs will be able to go in for the kill, while Hamas wants to attack Israel, in its present borders, “again and again” whenever it is able. Those who insist Israel must accept that “two-state solution” are asking the Israelis to voluntarily weaken themselves and accept as a neighbor a state that will be Hamas Lite. All but a handful of Israeli Jews have had it with that nonsensical “two-state solution.” The scales fell from the eyes even of leftwing peaceniks in Israel on October 7, 2023. The rest of the world needs to understand this. The only outcome that Israel can possibly accept is that enunciated by Prime Minister Netanyahu in 2018 and repeated by him many times since: “The only possible solution is that they [the Palestinians] will have autonomy over themselves, but not the ability to harm us.”
Mike says
It would be more understandable to mourn the death of Thanos, from the Marvel Comics “Avengers” movies.
gravenimage says
Yep.
Elena Feder says
Palestinians do not care for autonomy, they don’t understand it. Islam means submission to a higher authority whose highest dictum is to be martyred by killing an infidel. That is why Abbas practices a soft form of terrorism, if such a concept makes sense, not least, encouraging the murder by compensating the families of Jew haters who die by killing us with stipends for life. Israel has no partner for peace in the Arab Palestinian world.. Albert Memmi warned the Founders against this delusion 75 years ago. To believe otherwise at this point is suicidal.
somehistory says
This “our sole legitimate representative, the Palestine Liberation Organization, ” says so much about the four year ruler’s… who has been ‘ruling’ for decades… opinion of hamas and others who want to make the decisions about what mozlums do and don’t do.
abbas considers himself the sole ‘ruler’ and decision maker for the mozlums in Israel. abbas believes he’s still “legitimate” after all these years of not allowing a vote.
there may come the day soon when he can be mourned as a pretend ‘martyr’ and ‘hero’. Perhaps while he’s counting his millions and planning his next big move.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, Beijing has resolved the differences b/w Fatah and Hamas, which is why Abbas is not secretly rejoicing at Sinwar’s death the way he once might have
gravenimage says
‘Moderate’ Mahmoud Abbas, and the Palestinian Authority, Mourn the Death of Yahya Sinwar
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Of course, Fatah and the bloody PLO have never been “moderate”. And Abbas no doubt hopes he can take over Hamas now, as well. I doubt he’s ever gotten over Fatah being violently ousted from Gaza.
Rufolino says
As Erdogan said, “There is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam. There is only Islam”.
James Lincoln says
Anyone morning the death of Yahya Sinwar approved of his jihad.